50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
50 Masterworks to Celebrate 50 Years of Sotheby’s Photographs
Irving Penn
'Harlequin Dress'
Lot Closed
April 21, 02:15 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
'Harlequin Dress'
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, editioned '29/30,' and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, 1950, printed in 1979
image: 20 ½ by 18 ⅞ in. (52.1 by 47.9 cm.)
frame: 32 ½ by 30 ½ in. (82.55 by 77.5 cm.)
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 67
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 49
Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990), pl. 27
David Seidner, Lisa Fonssagrives: Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography (London, 1996), cover and pp. 138-39
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pl. 44
Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn Centennial (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), p. 96
Paul Martineau, Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018), pl. 103